Oh, I didn't know that was happening. Thanks!
That's one spunky little girl you've raised. I'm gonna eat her.
The Mayor ,'End of Days'
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-t - Aug 01, 2014 5:21:14 am PDT #6092 of 7329
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
§ ita § - Aug 01, 2014 6:32:51 am PDT #6093 of 7329
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I tried watching Hemlock Grove. I'm not sure if I or it failed.
Theodosia - Aug 01, 2014 6:38:02 am PDT #6094 of 7329
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"
I vote it failed -- I tried, but after lasting through nearly three episodes, I gave it up.
§ ita § - Aug 01, 2014 7:05:24 am PDT #6095 of 7329
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
That's about how far I got.
Did the women get exponentially less interesting, or something? I mean, it wasn't great the first time around, but I seem to recall some XX to pay attention to.
le nubian - Aug 01, 2014 9:50:11 am PDT #6096 of 7329
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
ita,
HG failed. HARD.
And, the 2nd season is so much worse than the 1st. Which I would never have believed.
Atropa - Aug 04, 2014 8:51:21 am PDT #6097 of 7329
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
Watched the first two episodes of Penny Dreadful last night. Other than the spiders, this show may be everything I've ever wanted. As soon as the high-society party seance-as-entertainment scene started, Pete had to pause the show while I got my delighted giggles under control.
Pretty clothes and teacups full of blood and vampires and trendy Victorian occultism! I LOVE THIS SHOW. Dear NBC, THIS is what your Dracula show should have been like.
Amy - Aug 04, 2014 9:58:11 am PDT #6098 of 7329
Because books.
Seriously, it gets better. I expected fun, popcorn stuff, and it actually rose well above that for me. I can't wait for the second season.
Atropa - Aug 06, 2014 5:30:16 pm PDT #6099 of 7329
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
Pam stole the idea for Fangtasia from Ginger? Billith Christ on a cracker, I cannot!
I KNOW, RIGHT?
I never expected to feel horrified sympathy for Ginger. But that flashback to her first entering the video store, looking for vampire movies her professor recommended, all earnest and geeky and stoked about her college class about monsters and the role of the Other in society? She just needed to be wearing a black velvet dress and have big deathrock hair and she would have been me.
sj - Aug 06, 2014 5:38:46 pm PDT #6100 of 7329
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
I've always sort of felt horrified on Ginger's behalf considering how many times it seemed she had been mind wiped, but I'm glad they gave her an interesting back story for the final season. Even if all those scenes only seem to have been written to establish the tunnel under Fangtasia.
Jilli, are you all caught up now?
Atropa - Aug 06, 2014 5:48:38 pm PDT #6101 of 7329
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
We're ... 2 episodes behind, I think? We just watched ep4, and my pusher hasn't delivered the latest episodes (OR THE REST OF PENNY DREADFUL WHICH I NEED LIKE CHOCOLATE AND AIR).
I felt horrified by the fact that Ginger's brain had obviously turned to mush because of the repeated glamouring. But showing she was an earnestly geeky vampire lore nerd? I'M STANDING RIGHT HERE.
(Seriously, Pete started snickering at that point. And the next flashback with her hearse and the stereo playing Bauhaus? Yeah, I recognize that funhouse mirror reflection.)